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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
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The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Bad manners make a journalist.
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To be popular one must be a mediocrity. Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. It seems to me that we never do anything else, murmered Dorian.
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But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
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The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
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A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
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I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
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